Slight Flow (2012)

“Undun is the story of this kid who becomes criminal, but he wasn´t born criminal. He´s not the nouveau exotic primitive bug-eyed gunrunner…he´s actually thoughtful and is neither victim nor hero. Just some kid who begins to order his world in a way that makes the most sense to him at a given moment…At the end of the day… isn´t that what we all do?”

The Roots

The attractive "outsider" is much more bearable if your name is Banksy, the graffiti artist from Bristol, than if your are known as “Marca” and were born in Getafe, the same expression channel in different forms and judged by dissimilar criteria.The suburb, the sprawling surface around downtown, that, in short, that has all the disadvantages of the city and none of the advantages of the field, has been printed at an extra artistic authenticity. It seems fair to give more credit to the work performed under adverse circumstances than the work that has an entire structure to back it up. And continuing, hence the fascination with the outsider, the one that lives practicing a radical commitment to reality, an assumption of a hostile environment and a continuous struggle to survive it. It is precisely from those who had the courage to live holding to their views no matter what that the rest of us draw our inspiration.The edge is the best place possible to cause the emergence of the new, the arrival of the event. And even when adversity is imposed and not chosen, the genius seems to break through, hand in hand with the need for expression. We must be virtuous, though. "Intuitions without concepts are blind, concepts without intuitions, empty," Kant dixit. Perhaps that is why each artist jealously guards for himself a number of references of what made him love art for the first time, references he will go back to in moments of low spirituality, precariousness, or he will go back to them to experience the powerful fascination with the ineffable one more time.Those are the certainties that instill a second wind to the work and fill it with its own authentic spirit. The basis of true originality in an artist is found in the capacity to refresh their universe of inspiration through his foundation on what has to be art.Following this train of thought, Maíllo seems to realize through his art a strong statement, making a stand: the expression – in its purest form it ends being called artistic-lies in the very existence. For art doesn’t know of high-brow or low-brow but of involvement of body and soul. Slight Flow relates to a way of subtle, covert flow that in its development builds the conections, networks and references that compose current culture. A sort of undercurrent that floods the old compartments inside the empty shell that was our archaic and stunted conception of culture. By way of memes referenced by Richard Dawkins, this movement is a new way of generation and transmission of ideas that emerge occasionally revealing its existence.We can consider Slight Flow as the emergence of what until now was unrevealed. Maíllo’s talent is the product of all that he has managed to recover and assimilate from the dense flow that unknowingly surrounds us. His N.E.F.E.R.T.I.T.I. has poisonous green mouth and eyes. It’s electrified as Innocent X in the hands of Bacon and from its solid archaic form, now converted into a sort of ancient alien, an eerie silence breaks. A power surge is maintained in six of the eight serigraphs called Omar Little's trasmutation series. In front of them, one gets the feeling that there are still ways to produce authentic painting.Around the suburb city, one of the large canvases on display is the Victory Boogie-Woogie of the suburbs, a first person view of what many have only seen through the windows of the conmute train and comes into direct dialogue with Pain SL, where the body-leitmotiv in the work of Maíllo-is the subject of the exploitation and it is displayed as evidence of extreme violence perpetrated against him.

“Undun is the story of this kid who becomes criminal, but he wasn´t born criminal. He´s not the nouveau exotic primitive bug-eyed gunrunner…he´s actually thoughtful and is neither victim nor hero. Just some kid who begins to order his world in a way that makes the most sense to him at a given moment…At the end of the day… isn´t that what we all do?”

Slight Flow (2012)

“Undun is the story of this kid who becomes criminal, but he wasn´t born criminal. He´s not the nouveau exotic primitive bug-eyed gunrunner…he´s actually thoughtful and is neither victim nor hero. Just some kid who begins to order his world in a way that makes the most sense to him at a given moment…At the end of the day… isn´t that what we all do?”

The Roots

The attractive "outsider" is much more bearable if your name is Banksy, the graffiti artist from Bristol, than if your are known as “Marca” and were born in Getafe, the same expression channel in different forms and judged by dissimilar criteria.The suburb, the sprawling surface around downtown, that, in short, that has all the disadvantages of the city and none of the advantages of the field, has been printed at an extra artistic authenticity. It seems fair to give more credit to the work performed under adverse circumstances than the work that has an entire structure to back it up. And continuing, hence the fascination with the outsider, the one that lives practicing a radical commitment to reality, an assumption of a hostile environment and a continuous struggle to survive it. It is precisely from those who had the courage to live holding to their views no matter what that the rest of us draw our inspiration.The edge is the best place possible to cause the emergence of the new, the arrival of the event. And even when adversity is imposed and not chosen, the genius seems to break through, hand in hand with the need for expression. We must be virtuous, though. "Intuitions without concepts are blind, concepts without intuitions, empty," Kant dixit. Perhaps that is why each artist jealously guards for himself a number of references of what made him love art for the first time, references he will go back to in moments of low spirituality, precariousness, or he will go back to them to experience the powerful fascination with the ineffable one more time.Those are the certainties that instill a second wind to the work and fill it with its own authentic spirit. The basis of true originality in an artist is found in the capacity to refresh their universe of inspiration through his foundation on what has to be art.Following this train of thought, Maíllo seems to realize through his art a strong statement, making a stand: the expression – in its purest form it ends being called artistic-lies in the very existence. For art doesn’t know of high-brow or low-brow but of involvement of body and soul. Slight Flow relates to a way of subtle, covert flow that in its development builds the conections, networks and references that compose current culture. A sort of undercurrent that floods the old compartments inside the empty shell that was our archaic and stunted conception of culture. By way of memes referenced by Richard Dawkins, this movement is a new way of generation and transmission of ideas that emerge occasionally revealing its existence.We can consider Slight Flow as the emergence of what until now was unrevealed. Maíllo’s talent is the product of all that he has managed to recover and assimilate from the dense flow that unknowingly surrounds us. His N.E.F.E.R.T.I.T.I. has poisonous green mouth and eyes. It’s electrified as Innocent X in the hands of Bacon and from its solid archaic form, now converted into a sort of ancient alien, an eerie silence breaks. A power surge is maintained in six of the eight serigraphs called Omar Little's trasmutation series. In front of them, one gets the feeling that there are still ways to produce authentic painting.Around the suburb city, one of the large canvases on display is the Victory Boogie-Woogie of the suburbs, a first person view of what many have only seen through the windows of the conmute train and comes into direct dialogue with Pain SL, where the body-leitmotiv in the work of Maíllo-is the subject of the exploitation and it is displayed as evidence of extreme violence perpetrated against him.

“Undun is the story of this kid who becomes criminal, but he wasn´t born criminal. He´s not the nouveau exotic primitive bug-eyed gunrunner…he´s actually thoughtful and is neither victim nor hero. Just some kid who begins to order his world in a way that makes the most sense to him at a given moment…At the end of the day… isn´t that what we all do?”